ABSTRACT
This chapter examines institutional efforts to promote public participation in land use planning and regeneration decision-making in Haringey from the early 1970s onwards. The political rise of the new left in Haringey was accompanied by various efforts to cop-opt local interest groups, offer representation to black and ethnic minority groups, trades unions and other constituencies on Council committees. The City Challenge programme, introduced in 1992, and the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) scheme that replaced the Urban Programme reflected a return to the notion of community empowerment. Conservation Area Advisory Committees became the principle mechanism for undertaking consultation on planning issues in the decades that followed. Conservation Area Advisory Committees (CAACs) fostered a degree of community activism on planning issues not formally encouraged elsewhere. The Local Government Act wrought a restructuring of local government that gave the Greater London Council (GLC) responsibility for broad planning strategy whilst making local authorities responsible for local planning matters and development control to districts.
